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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
A @a50,O0O Farm and Its Head.

Our staff correspondent this week des-
cribes "Belle Meade" the historic breeding
farm of General w. II. Jackson. Besides
being the home of ''Iroquois," the only
American winner of the English Derby, it
was the home of "Bonny Scotland,' who
sired such horses as Bramble, Luke Black
burn and a swarm of ''B-s'' that in 1882
put the old stallion at the head of winning
sires in America. One of the spring sales
yearlings than any sale ever held, except at
the Queens breeding farm in England.
Over forty yearlings sold at Belle Meade for
an average of 81 GAG seach, and at the
Queens farm thirty odd sold for 81 ,112
average. The French government sent out
commission of experts to study the horse
breeding farms of the world, and it reported
''Belle Meade'' the most perfect farm they
had visited.
Next week we shall print full sketch of
the best Jersey farm in the country-that of
Major Campbell Brown, at Spring Hill,
Tenn. General Jackson this week says he
does not believe in the system of small
farms. He sticks to the old plantation
idea-Major Brown, on the other hand,
does not believe in the old plantation sys-
TEN, and does believe in small farms. His
views on this point next week will be very
interesting. Our sketches of the big farms
of the country will be a special feature of
THE CONSTITUTION next year. Next week
the great Jersey farm of Major Campbell
Brown
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
Of Interest to Ex-Confederates.

The bill introduced by Senator Gibson to
make ex-confederate soldiers eligible to 20
sitions in the federal army and navy ought
to become law.
The civil war ended nearly quarter
of a century ago. Southerners who
fought under their flag have been called to
some of the most responsible civil positions
under the government. They have been
considered worthy of places on the bench
and in the cabinet. They are not barred
out from even the highest offices in the gift
of the nation. But the absurd and unjust
law which prohibits their appointment to po-
sitions in the army and navy has remained
on the statute books unrepealed, year after
year.
1t is time to wipe out this last vestigc of
sectional and partisan hatred. If an ex-
confederate is good enough for the civil SER
vice of our government he is good enough
for its military service, and in the event of
a foreign war he would prove himself
brave and efficient defender of the nations
honor and security. There is no other way
of looking at the matter.
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EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.


BISMARCK STIRRED UP all Europe the other
day by having an attack Of the collie.
Tom VOOLFOLK WILL eat his Christmas
dinner in Atlanta, this year. Next year -
IT Is great thing to live in New York.
Strawberries for Christmas may be purchased
there at twelve dollars quart.
HENRY GEORGE CONTINUES to announce
that he will not run for president. This is ins
deed true. By next year George will be fof4
gotten.
THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS says that Mr.
Cleveland will be the next democratic plat
form. This is reassuring. In that event, the
platform will be large, broad and fat.
WHEN SENATOR EvARTs shook hands with
two colored republicans in New York the otheH
day, there was tremendous applause in the
galleries. 1t was, indeed, a very unusual
sight.
AN ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENT sends
Henry I4abouchere, editor of the London
Truth, 10000 six-pences every year, for distrig
button among the poor children of the greae
city. He has no idea who the person is.
Ex- MINISTER TAYLOR, who has Just returns
ed from Ii liberia, is trying to make people BEG
lieve that the blacks in Africa are very much
superior to their brethren in this country. He.
attributes this to the conversion of the negroes
to Mohamedonism.
GENERAL JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON says it cost
good deal to correct the delusion that slaverY
was necessary to the civilization of the south.
Such a remark as this is calculated to give
Foraker the green persimmon grin.
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books, declared fictitious dividends, and
pulled the wool over the eyes of everybody
He had been guilty of acts that would have
ruined any ordinary man long before Id
opened his bank but he made such goldef
promises that people listened to him, and
not less than seven hundred banks authoTs
lied him to transact business with theIn
and for them.
The wreck of the Fidelity was not eng,
tirely the result of the disastrous wheat
deal. 1t was bound to come anyhow, and
so far as the seven hundred banks are coris
cerned it is all right They knew that they
were dealing with an unprincipled sharper
and each of the little banks, with the littlA
Shylock at it's head, fancied that it was eng
joying special privileges.
But Harper has saved pile of money
out of the wreck. 1t is somewhere, and
when he comes out of prison he is going to
enjoy it. If he serves his ten years he will
not be an old man at the expiration of that
time. OF course he expects to have the
time shortened, or to be pardoned. And
the expectation is not extravagant. Such
q man always has influential friends, and
they will spare no pains to aid him. The
millionaire convict's Christmas may not be-
a merry one, but it will not be aItogetheH
wretched. =
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

that the officer ofthe law was jusifable In killing
this man. and we have no testimony 10 show that he
not is it not somewhat hurtful TO the sense Of
justice of every ofyou that system Of taxation
should be upheld in this land OF liberty that makes
such occurrence as the above possible; and that
under your democratic administration Of the govern
ment?
But this Is only one Of very many fsimilar cases
where death has resulted either 10 citizens of the
state or 10 officers Of the law. The records OF the
federal courts Aled with incidents of injustice
and oppression resulting from the attempt 70 collect
the internal revenue taxes
Let US give you an example An ex-revenue col
lecior. several years ago bought few twists of
homemade tobacco from an old negro man, and at
once gave information to q United States deputy,
who arrested tho old man, carried him fifty miles
away 10 Huntsville and had him lodged in jail,
where be remained some weeks, until the sitting Of
federal court. The case was such trfe and unjust
one that the negro was discharged without trial.
What unjust law II was deprive laborer Of the
right to sell the fruits Of his own toiR
This is, indeed, the gist of the whole
matter-its pith and marrow. THE CONSTR
TUITION has frequently called on the honor
able body to which the Age appeals to take
this subject into consideration. The same
honorable body has been appealed to on
various occasions by so respectable com
munity as the people of Georgia, through
their representatives in the legislature, and
by other states; and quite recently the state
Of Virginia, through its legislature, has
uttered a similar petition. But to these
urgent petitions, the members of congress
have hitherto turned deaf ear.
Gentlemen of congress, you talk about
revenue reduction and tariff reform, but
here is a system of taxation-and unneces-
sary taxation at that--which has wrought
murder and bloodshed. Here is a system of
unnecessary taxation which has commits
stoned an army of spies and informers. Here
is system of taxation which has broken up
happy homes; which has caused innocent
men to be dragged hundreds of miles from
their families, to die in the loathsome jails
provided for criminals in our country. Now,
what is to be done about it?
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Great Yields of cotton and Corn.

We print this week the list of awards
in the third annual contest for premiums
offered by George w. Scott & Co. These
premiums are for the best five acres in cot
ton, the best single acre in cotton, and the
best single acre in cOrn-all to be fortified
with Gossypium Phospho.
The awards show that Mr.. Robert G..
Ray, of Douglas county, raised 0, 6sS pounds
of cotton on five acres; George W. Truitt,
of LaGrange, 5000; and Mr.. J. 7. Wyatt,
of Jasper county, $3.50. On a single acre.
Mr.. James w. Mason, of Palmetto, raised
2,677 pounds; Mr.. X. G. Ray, 2,j56; Mr..
George w. Truitt, 2,0s7 Mr. J. ii. Wild
ner, of Coweta county, 1,775; and Mrs.
Smallprice, of Sumter county, l,6s2. Mr..
Mason and Mr.. Ray took over five bales of
five hundred pounds each from single
acre.
Now, what does this mean?
Mr.. Ray raised twenty bales of cotton Of
five hundred pounds each on five acres.
The average throughout Georgia last year
was one bale to three acres, so that the
average Georgia farmer occupied sixty acres
with crop to get what Mr.. Ray took from
a az tNNNA~NN lAl AilNA AsAN ~ iilON.
plant and cultivate sixty acres, while Mr.
Ray cultivated five acres and got the same
amount OF cotton. lie fused fifty one hun
dred pounds of fertilizer on the five acres
which cost him seventy dollars. The cot
ton yielded him 500. Not only was he
saved the labor Of cutiyating ffty-fye sur
plus acres, but those acres were either lying
iallow, or wer eput down in grass or other
crops. Mir. Iruit. who this year took
eighteen bales OF i've hundred pounds each
from five acres, is cultiyatiug less land than
he cultivated five years ago. Io got more
cotton from it this year than ever before.
and has three hundred tons Of hay for sale
besides
These farmers have reduced their cotton
acreage from sixty acres TO five, and have
put the other tifty-hye acres into other
crops. This Sc seems to us is the secret Of
successful farming.
These yields arc not exceptional Last
year Mr.. Sims made l0,ss7 pounds on FIVE
acres; Mr.. lay, 10,s60; Mr.. Pyron, 10. 100;
Mr.. Truitt, $3.50. These four contestants
were in separate counties. ona single acre
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
A Happy Convict.

Banker Harper, although convict, is q
happy man. No hard labor for him. Not
a bit of i'll
He has been made the clerk of the secre-
tary of the Ohio penitentiary. He will
have light and agreeable occupation, and
pleasant companionship. He will be spared
many things that remind other convicts of
their degradation.
But Harper has another reason for feeling
well satisfied He now has more money
than he ever had before in his whole bust
ness career. Let us see. His loss in the
wheat deal was 81 100000 but the loss Of
the Fidelity bank was 100000. Where
is all this money? A good deal of it was
doubtless wasted in Harper's high pres
sure, fictitious way of doing business but
it is thought that at least two millions have
been safely concealed.
The career of this man shows what
bright, unscrupulous Spectator can do in
this country. Harper had little or no cdu-
cation, but he had pleasant address, plenty
OF self-confdence, and he had the art Of
convincing people that their fortunes were
made if they would trust him with their
money. Selling sewing machines on CON.
mission was a small business for such q
man. He borrowed money, and then bor.
rowed more, to reimburse his creditors. lie
became banker, made false entries In hia
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

Mr.. Truitt made 2,191; Mr.. Hudgins, of
DeKalb, 1,s9S; Mr.. Pascal, 1,701; Mr.
Thompson, 1858 pounds. Each OF these
gentlemen lived in different counties, but
the same process of cultivation produced
the same approximate results The year
before the yields for these prizes were about
the same. Every yield is attested by the
closest affidavits and inspection.
The yield of corn is equally astonishing.
Mr. j. r. Mann, of Palmetto, gathered
1874 bushels of corn from one acre, and Mr..
j. j. Millions, of Coweta county, ia
$500 bushels from one acre; Mr.. Truitt,
100 bushels; Mr.. Clay, of Paulding, 100
bushels; Mr.. j. H. Widner, of Coweta, 1O6
bushels The highest yield of corn ever
gathered from an acre, we believe, was 2l0
bushels. Mr.. Mann's yield from Georgia
farm comes within twelve and half bushels
of the highest yield ever made.
These things show what can be done on
Georgia soil and by Georgia farmers. Colonel
Scott estimates that there are two or three
thousand farmers throughout the south
farming on this plan, though from one rea-
son or another they are discouraged from
entering into the contest. He has prizes
offered in Alabama and South Carolina.
We shall look with interest for the reports
from those states, to see whether they sur
pass Georgia in the excellence of their
farmers and the fertility of their soil. In
any event, these reports show that the south
is the best section of this country, and that
industry and intelligence will produce re-
suits here on the farm that cannot be
equaled elsewhere.
1t will be seen that the results achieved
in Alabama and South Carolina are very
much lower than in Georgia, though in Ala
bama one farmer comes very near the top
with 1881 pounds OF lint cotton to the acre.
1t was expected that the returns from each
of the adjoining states would fall below the
return of Georgia, for the reason that the
system of intensive farming taught by this
competition is tried for the second time this
year in those states, while it is the fourth
year of contest in Georgia. Alabama and
South Carolina will come up in next years
contest, and Georgia will have to look to her
laurels. We emphasize the fact that the re-
turns from either one of the three states,
and especially from the three states COM
bined, show that farming in the south when
properly done is profitable business, and
that in fertility our soils when properly
treated equal the best soils of the north or
west,
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Race Prejudice in Ohio.

In the little town of Oxford, in the great
republican state of Ohio, the people are in
quite a stew over the question of the co-edu-
cation of the races. They have been in
this stew for some time, but it is worse
now than ever, and there is every reason to
believe that the contest will end in row
which will not be very dear to the heart of
Editor Murat Halstead and other profess
sional wavers of the bloody shirt.
We have already given an account of the
troubles in Oxford over the attempt of the
negroes to send their children to the white
schools. The school board of Oxford as
signed the colored children back to their
own schools. Then followed a suit brought
by negro named Perry Gibson, in the cir
cult court. The court decided that Glib
sons children had a right to attend the
white school. Since this decision the pros
porous little republican town of Oxford has
been, in manner, torn up. The white
people are loud in their expressions of dis
gust at the verdict of the court, and against
every measure looking in any way toward
the establishment of mixed school.
Gibson the colored man, was advised by
his attorneys to send his children to the
white school at once. The superintendent
of the schools declined to receive the negro
children. he was advised not to admit
them as the case had not been put ON rec
ord. Meanwhile, the case will be taken to
the supreme court.
What is to be the result of this controversy
in the republican town of Oxford, in the
great republican state of Ohio? The white
citizens propose to boycott the entire col
ored population. A prominent merchant
and a member of the board of education
has discharged all the negroes in his en-
ploy, and will not give them work of any
kind. A systematic boycott is in contem-
plation, and it is thought that seventy-fve
per cent of the white population will par
ticipate in it, showing that prejudice
against the negro race is as broad and as
deep as it is in the south.
1t is to be hoped that when Halstead and
John Sherman begin to wave the bloody
shirt they will shake it little for the ben
eft of Ohio
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Don't Listen to Them, Mr.. President.

1t is possible that Mr.. Villas and Mr.. Dick
inson have been persuading President Cleve-
land that a strong iree-trade bid would cap
ture some OF the o-thwestern states.
Don't listen to that sort of thing, Mr..
President.
A bloody shirt, waved by the heaviest and
dullest hands, would carry the northwest a
whlrling against all governmental theories,
though written in regular message English
and exploited by Mr, Vilas's eloquenee!
New Jersey and Connecticut are steadfast
and safe democratic states, if We give them
half a chance.
To sacrifice them with the hope of catch
ing the partisan northwest, is to throw
away two plump birds in the hand for a
half-dozen last years birds-nests in sage
bush!